Nat 5 Music

A texture with two or more independent melody lines

A Form which has two different sections

Italian Term for plucking

A texture where all the parts play the same rhythm at the same time

Scottish Drum played with a beater

Woodwind instrument with a double reed, sounds nasal

The smallest distance between 2 notes

Moves in semitones (sounds like falling down stairs)

Cadence which sounds unfinished

Untuned percussion, popular in Spanish music

A combination of rock instruments and Scottish instruments

Large orchestral work WITH solo instrumnet

Religious Music from America, often features call and response

Played with mute

A medium speed tempo

Cadence which sounds finished

A Chord made of consecutive notes which clash

Italian term for using the bow

Scottish Harp

Scottish religious music, call and response, sung in Gaelic

Unaccompanied singing

A passage which links two important ideas

A melody which is sung higher than the main melody

Two parts which move in opposite directions

Changing the pitch of a note, i.e. pushing a guitar string upwards

Tempo, borrowed time

Musical Period featuring Atonality, Chromatic Scales and the largest orchestra

Rolling "Rs" on a Woodwind or Brass instrument

Bassline which notes usually of the same value

Verse/Chorus Form

Contrasting rhythms played at the same time

A tune which is played alongside the main tune

Middle male voice

Untuned percussion, part of a drum kit, two cymbals that are opened and closed.

Music written for a group of singers

Middle female voice

A repeated bassline which stays the same

Neither Major nor Minor

A solo song for Opera

A Scottish song, unaccompanied, about work

No sense of key

Two Semitones

Highest woodwind instrument

Large orchestral work WITHOUT solo instrument

Scale which sounds dreamy

Type of ornament played as a quick crushed note

Lowest woodwind instrument

Musical Period with strong melodies and homophonic accompaniments

A From where the first section repeats between sections

Brass instrument in a circular shape, warm tone

A high note held in the upper part of a piece

The music slows down

Celtic Rock ONLY features Scottish Instruments

A change of key

Musical Period which features a harpsichord and lots of ornaments

Word Setting, More than one note per syllable

Word Setting, Only one note per syllable

Musical style with a repeated ostinato that develops

Dramatic Musical period featuring lots of tempo and dynamic changes

Solo Bagpipe Music in Ternary form

Music featuring a Sitar and Tabla

A musical slide

A passage at the end of the music which finishes it off

Broken Chord accompaniment in the bass

Untuned Percussion, joined as a pair and played by hitting